ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

For the last few years, historian and archivist Jason Scott has been involved with a loose, rogue band of data preservation activists called The Archive Team. As major sites with brand recognition and the work of millions announce short-notice shutdowns of their entire services, including Geocities, Friendster, and Yahoo Video, Archive Team arrives on the scene to duplicate as much as they possibly can for history before all the data is wiped forever. To do this, they have been rude, crude and far outside the spectrum of polite requests to save digital history, and have used a variety of techniques to retrieve and extract data that might have otherwise been unreachable. Come for the rough-and-tumble extraction techniques and teamwork methods, stay for the humor and ranting.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Archive
• Team;Jason
• You;Profanity;

[PeterBParkr]

"Backups are important" and that right there was golden!!!! Love Jason Scott and he really made that point hit home. He should speak at corporations to teach them about the need for security and backups as part of that process.

[quaek]

This video needs WAY more views.

[thejobloshow]

So great, I watched it twice!

[Jeroenz0r]

Aww yeah!

[CausticCreations]

Doode! u rock. thank u 4 ur data saving efforts

[DevHQLessons]

Amazing talk! :D

[davelister2005]

@jasonheob behold my dick yeaaaa

[jasonheob]

behold the egomaniac

[pathduck]

Jason Scott is the best. Also, underconstruction/mail didn't crash Opera ;)

[jlkeegan]

Jason while I was watching this it occurred to me that it's likely that someday you'll be downloading this video from youtube in an effort to preserve it from the then-reasonable-sounding-to-so­me shutdown of that old youtube site. Keep up the good work.

[fungalmonk]

Sketch is golden.